Science for Everyone: Aptitude Test: Problems in Physics (Paperback)

This book, which is a collection of phys- ics aptitude test problems, draws on the experience of the physics olympiads con- ducted during the last fifteen years among the schoolchildren of Moscow. A Moscow physics olympiad includes three preliminary theoretical rounds at the regional, city, and qualifying levels, followed by a final practical round. After the final round, a team of Moscow schoolchildren is selected for participation in the all-Union olympiad. The complexity of the problems set for each round increases gradually, starting from the simplest problems at regional lev- el, problems which can be solved simply by having a thorough knowledge of the bas- ic laws and concepts of physics. The prob- lems at the qualifying stage are much more complicated. Some of the problems at this level involve a certain amount of research